Kühnel was serving on the mayor's advisory council on sustainability, a panel that was assessing a proposal by Transition's food working group for an organic community garden.
This will help alleviate the problems which arise when a given study section does not have sufficiently objective expertise to adequately assess a given proposal, or where the "resident experts" tend to represent a built-in cartel. .
If they can't make this judgment, it may be that the group lacks any scientists who can assess a creative proposal and counterbalance critical reviewers who get bogged down in minor details or niggling complaints.
The method has been employed to assess a number of proposals and their combinations within the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary in the UK.
Among other ideas the consultant will likely be asked to assess is a proposal to build a trash plant within New York City that would heat waste to such a high temperature -- perhaps 30,000 degrees -- that the garbage would break into elemental components, creating byproducts of natural gas and a stone-like residue.
In an architectural review, Nicolai Ouroussoff assesses a new proposal for building atop the Parke-Bernet Gallery on the Upper East Side.
HIA's essential characteristics are: assessing a policy proposal to predict population health and equity impacts, a structured process for stakeholder dialogue, making recommendations, and flexibly adapting to the policy process.
HIA has four characteristics: assessing a policy proposal to predict population health and equity impacts, a structured process for stakeholder dialogue, making recommendations and flexibly adapting to the policy process.
A proposal to assess a fee on nearby property owners foundered after business owners and residents objected to paying for what they see as a tourist destination.
Research ethics committees are required to assess a vast range of proposals, differing in both their topic and methodology.
